The pilot

One real matter. About a week. The first one is free.

The fastest way to know if this works for your firm is to point it at one real matter and read what comes back. The first one is on me.

Freethe first one
about a weekstart to delivery
1audit or motion
Yoursto keep, either way
What the week looks like
Days 1 to 3 · build and run
  • I build your firm's operating file: courts, conventions, voice.
  • You pick one matter: a discovery audit or one motion.
  • The system runs. You get a first, reviewable draft.
Days 4 to 7 · revise to your standard
  • You mark it up. I revise until it matches your standard.
  • Every finding ties to an exhibit you can check.
  • Whatever I build that week is yours to keep.
Start the pilot

Send me one file.

One discovery production, or one motion you need built. I will tell you within a day whether it is a clean fit for the pilot, and what you would get back.

I onboard one firm at a time, so each pilot gets full attention. If I am mid-pilot when you write, I will tell you when I can start.

This builds an email to me. Keep case specifics out of it for now, nothing is uploaded here. I send back a signed confidentiality agreement before any file moves.
Email me a question
Or write to me directly: dvan@usc.edu · (909) 287-4983
After the pilot, if it earns it

A flat monthly retainer, in three sizes.

Every size runs the same system, the same verification gate, and the same named operator. What grows with the tier is how much of your practice it carries.

Starter
$1,500 / month
Matters run one at a time, through a queue. Send as many as you like. Full pipeline, full gate, revisions included.
Standard
$3,000 / month
Up to three running at once, plus the calendar and deadlines reconciled to the docket, a daily brief on what is moving, and priority turnaround.
Full service
$6,500 / month
The system runs your practice. Your whole active caseload with standing coverage: hearing prep on autopilot, intake and eBPACE/IDCO billing, same-day starts. For firms with multiple attorneys or roughly 25+ open matters.
How a slot works. The unit is a job: one pipeline run on one matter (a single run can emit several deliverables). A job holds a slot only while it is being worked. The moment a draft is back on your desk for review, the slot frees for the next job in line. Queue as much as you want; nothing is turned away, it is only ever next.
Nothing is metered inside a tier: no per-document charges, revisions included. Every job gets a committed delivery date when it enters the queue. Move between sizes, descope, or cancel any month, no rip-out. Trial support is priced separately at any tier.
Founding rate, first two firms: Starter $1,000, Standard $2,500, locked for 12 months.
Not sure which size fits? That is what the pilot is for.
For scale: a full-time California criminal-defense paralegal runs roughly $8,000 a month or more once salary, benefits, and overhead are loaded in (Salary.com median, loaded). Even the top tier sits under that, with no benefits load, no overhead, and no turnover.
The questions you are already asking
Who is responsible for the work?
Me. I build the pipeline around your practice, run each matter through it, and read the output before it reaches your desk. If something is not right, I fix it until it is, at no extra cost. Behind that: drafts drilled on your own filed work, a halt for your theory before anything argues, the automated six-reviewer gate reading against the source, and every defect ever found locked into a test that reruns on every job.

Legal judgment stays with your firm. I work as an extension of it, as California requires for paralegal work (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6450), and the service does not give legal advice or set strategy. You sign because it is your case. My job is to make that the only thing left to do.
What about confidentiality and privilege?
A signed confidentiality agreement comes before any file moves. Nothing is disclosed except as law compels. Your matter data is never used to train any model: the tools it runs on are under terms that forbid training on it. I am the only person who reads your files, and the software they pass through is listed for you before anything moves. Privilege runs through your firm: the work is your attorney’s work product, done under your attorney’s direction.
What if the output is wrong?
It gets caught before it reaches you, or I correct it the same day. Six automated reviewers read the finished draft against the source, including the operative pleading the drafters never reopened, and a draft claiming more than the record supports is blocked, not delivered. It blocked the real filed motion on this site on its first pass. Every defect ever found becomes a locked test that reruns on every job, nineteen so far, none removed to make a run pass.
We already use the AI in Lexis or Westlaw. What does this add?
Keep it. Protégé and CoCounsel are one general assistant, sold to every firm the same, and they help when you drive them. This is the other shape: a system engineered around your firm, running fixed checkable steps drilled on samples from filed work, with a halt for your attorney’s strategy call and six automated reviewers at the end. You send the file; finished, verified work comes back. The tools are not in competition. The hours are.
Will my staff have to learn new software?
No. This is a service, not a tool. Your staff keep working the way they work, and finished work product comes to them.
This is run by a real paralegal who does the actual work, inside a working criminal defense practice, every day.
What you see here is the floor, criminal defense, running today. See your practice's pipeline sketched →